East Bay Cohousing - Berkeley/Oakland/Emeryville/SF

M.A. http://www.ebcoho.org/members/8640251/
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Berkeley, CA 94704

Former Supporting EBCOHO member 'til 8/14/10

Location:

Lafayette, CAUSA 94549

Member since:

January 9, 2009

Has attended:

3 Meetups

Introduction

I lived in community in the 70s and 80s -- and love the idea of cohousing because it offers the best of independent living AND community. Right now I'm a terrific renter candidate and hope someday to be able to buy!

How did you hear about East Bay Cohousing?

Have been involved in intentional communities for a long time; met Raines through a co-housing group I was a part of and have stayed on his mailing list.

What does Cohousing mean to you?

Cohousing brings people of like mind together to share their lives and resources. Reinforcing community as the human way to be (The idea of going it alone is Sooooo 20th century!) and creating more opportunities to have fun with friends.

What's most likely: Rent, Buy, Share, Build, Co-create?

Rent and share for now - hope to buy down the road.

Where are you most interested in living?

I'm torn between the "west" East Bay and Contra Costa for various reasons - and eventually I may have to leave the Bay Area for parts unknown, so it's more important to have a match with people than location per se.

Raines Cohen East Bay Cohousing - Berkeley/Oakland/Emeryville/SF

Hi, M.A., it is great to have you back in East Bay Cohousing! Let us go forward boldly into the 21st century of community opportunities, fun with friends indeed.

Jan 10, 2009 8:50 PM

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Berkeley, CA

Founded Oct 22, 2003

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Imagine lively people-scaled communities dotting the San Francisco Bay Area - places co-created by their residents for raising kids, for retirement, for growing food or simply living well by sharing more. The Bay Area already has ecovillages, and cohousing neighborhoods, resident-owned housing cooperatives, and group houses -- real world places where we can live more sustainably through a more cooperative way of life. You can have both privacy and community when you know your neighbors on purpose, in day-to-day relationships based on common vision and values.

East Bay Cohousing (EBCOHO) is a Bay Area-wide MeetUp. We connect a wide variety of kindred spirits and resources. We support individuals wanting to learn more, forming groups looking to create community together, and members of existing communities. We are mostly in the East Bay and San Francisco; others are from the North and South Bay, Los Angeles, Nevada, and other parts of the US and Mexico.

There are over two dozen cohousing communities in the greater Bay Area, (more cohousing in Oakland than any other U.S. city). There are also dozens of other emerging and long-established intentional communities. EBCOHO members have recently bought or rented homes in cohousing neighborhoods and cooperatively owned apartment buildings in Berkeley, Emeryville, Oakland , Pleasant Hill, Grass Valley, Santa Rosa, and Nevada City. We have members living in Swan's Market Cohousing, Triple Point, Temescal Commons, Berkeley Cohousing, Parker Street Coop, Berkeley Town House, Addison Court Coop and established forming groups like East Lake Cohousing (formerly North Oakland Cohousing).

Extra bonus for 2012: The National Cohousing Conference is coming to town in June!

We host EBCOHO events for members, and link you to other events featuring a global network of friends and allies: pioneers in cooperative culture and sustainable communities: urban farmers, affordable housing developers, green builders, and creative visionaries in the movements for more open, user-friendly and collaborative technologies, economies, and governments. There's a global reinvention of communiies going on - both on the ground and online -- and the Bay Area is one of the world's epicenters.

EBCOHO has more events than our MeetUp-based home page can show fully, so please click on our Calendar to see more. Join for free to get involved! There's no charge for basic membership, but supporting members get discounts on some events, including socials, and workshops, cohousing books, and Cohousing Coaching.

Join us for an orientation, for social events, discussion, talks with exciting speakers, and hands-on workshops to learn the tools for developing good group relationships, and the real estate development process.. Find others who share your vision for supportive neighbors. Do it for yourself, for your family, for your parents, do it for the Earth! Make 2012 the year to deepen YOUR community connections.